shaped

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Southern California’s air pollution burden has long been shaped by a mix of traffic, freight movement, industry, geography and climate.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

To challenge the long-accepted idea, the researchers built two compact, self-contained surfaces shaped like doughnuts, known as tori.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

For historian Jayanta Sengupta, fish is "inseparable from Bengali cuisine, shaped by geography and its long role as an affordable source of protein".

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

She grew up on the banks of the Magdalena River, near Colombia's largest oil refinery, in a sweltering region long shaped by oil, conflict and poverty.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

There were four of them for some reason, and the tub was one of those old kinds that had feet shaped like giant bird talons.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova